Yesterday was a wild and confusing day for me and my hunting buddies.  One of the guys I hunt with hired a professional video photographer to come video our hunt.  It is one thing to video with your buddies with your own hand held Sony when you don't care how bad a job you do, but standing beside a $5,000 camera as big as a overnight bag full of clothes is another thing.  We started out trying to position the camera and positioning the hunter in front of him but that was a flop.  It seemed as though every bird would shy away every time he aimed the camera in the direction the birds were coming from.  We figured out that the lens was reflecting light back at the birds, so on to another field.  It took us three hours to get our act together. He has filmed professional deer hunts, boat races, football games, weddings, duck hunts , but all have been in an open environment, never a crow hunt in thick NC woods with our briars and pine trees.  So his learning curve was as difficult as ours.  Finally I just told the guy we were going to hunt as usual and for him to hide the best he can and get some footage. One thing that surprised me was that he only got 1.5 hours of footage all day.  My legs and back after 8 hours of standing, calling and shooting sure felt like more than that.  Goes to show how much I know about professional filming?  I have to admit I was nervous every time he would come stand with me, between thinking you are on stage in a crow calling contest and a shooting competition at the same time, who knows how I did.  I think I held my own in both categories but we shall see, the tape doesn't lie.  I sure hope he is a good edit person and can bleep out my "damns",(I tend to slip a little when I miss), I hate missing those bandits. We are all Christians and we try to keep it clean, but a crow will bring out the worst in a man, Ha!  The other two guys (my buddies) held their own as well, one of which paid for all of this and many thanks to him.  He is a rookie in the sport and it has been my pleasure to pass along my knowledge to him as he learns.  He comes from a duck hunting background and wants to shoot a little far at times but we are working on that as well as his mouth calling.  Two seasons ought to do it.  After lunch we turned it on and got into them pretty good on two different farms.  Ended up with 189 dead ones.  Can't wait to see the results, probably will be classified as comedy